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Bill signings and handshakes are the norm for White House photographers. Capturing the personal moments of presidents and their families is more difficult. Time photojournalist Diana Walker spent decades taking presidential pictures, often snapping scenes other photographers missed. See a gallery of her work.

The Walt Disney Concert Hall, designed by Frank Gehry, is one of the most talked-about new American buildings in decades. The first of three inaugural events took place Thursday night. NPR's Fred Child attended the concert and filed this report.

Nearly four decades after the end of the Civil War, W.E.B. Du Bois set out to collect images that accurately portrayed the spirit of America's blacks. He wanted the photographs to help counteract stereotypes of African Americans as poor and uneducated. NPR's Michele Norris talks with the author of a new book about Du Bois' collection.

Prior to the Civil War, some free black people owned slaves. Author Edward P. Jones picked up on that little-known fact and has written a vivid first novel that looks at slavery through a different lens. On Morning Edition, hear an interview with Jones and a review of The Known World. Read an excerpt of the book.

Los Angeles' new Walt Disney Concert Hall is meant to be not only a grand space for orchestral music, but also to attract people who may never have visited a concert hall. The Frank Gehry-designed facility makes its debut Thursday, and its architectural and cultural appeal will be tested. Hear NPR's Mandalit del Barco.

Kathy Harrison has served as a foster mother to more than 112 children over the past 15 years. She tells her story in a new book called Another Place at the Table. Hear Harrison and NPR's Scott Simon.

Swiss-born blues musician and historian Walter Liniger is spending the weekend in Montreux, teaching blues harmonica to 400 Swiss postal administrators. He speaks with NPR's Scott Simon.

Entertainer Lily Tomlin will be the recipient of this year's Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. In an interview with NPR's Scott Simon, she covers a career full of wry observations on the human comedy. Watch video of many of her classic performances.

Ridley Scott's chilling 1979 space horror film Alien is being re-released to theaters on Halloween in a new director's cut. Weekend Edition film commentator Kevin Murphy offers a review.

Mark Lombardi's drawings chart the complex relationships behind some of the world's biggest and most complex scandals — Iran-Contra, the Vatican bank collapse, the arming of Iraq during the 1980s.